Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Duterte: Billionaire Soros Funding Human Rights Watch

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday his war on drugs had cut back the supply to "very low" levels and thanked China for supporting his crackdown, but swore repeatedly at ally the United States for criticizing it.

Duterte said his bloody campaign against drugs had successfully reduced the narcotics flow, but conceded there were signs that criminals had now turned to kidnapping, another problem he planned to tackle.

"There is a very low supply of drugs now. But, there is a shift to kidnapping by these idiots," he said during a televised speech. "This is a new game, so be careful. Give me time to talk to God."

The crime-busting former mayor of the once lawless Davao City said last week he had spoken to God and promised him he would no longer use bad language.

But his vow has not held long. On Friday, he got angry again at former colonial power Washington for its concerns about alleged summary killings and contrasted its stance with that of China, which has funded a huge drugs rehabilitation center.

"Now who helped? China," he said. "America, what did they say? 'Duterte, stop the extrajudicial killings. We hold you responsible'," he said.



Watch His Full Speech On Integrated Bar of the Philippines’ (IBP) Regional Convention (Speech) 11/4/2016




"I said: 'You can go to hell. You're all shit. You look at us Filipinos like dogs... You're all really sons of bitches because you violated our dignity.'"

As a provincial outsider in May's presidential election, Duterte used his brashness and profanity to enhance his public appeal. Dubbed "the punisher" and "Duterte Harry", he was elected by a big margin.

That was aided by the promise of a drugs war, which has killed over 2,300 people in four months.
Duterte on Friday homed in on Human Rights Watch, which he said was attacking him to justify a $100 million, 10-year grant philanthropist George Soros promised it six years ago.

"This Human Rights Watch of New York, that belongs to Soros. Soros was the financier. That's him. It's his grant," he said.

President Rodrigo Duterte and Philanthropist George Soros 

"They have funding money. They will really attack to justify. They chose me... they're pounding on me. That is fine, editorials every day. I can swallow that."

Duterte's relentless assaults on Washington have baffled the country's biggest ally, but do not appear to have resonated among Filipinos and the local business community, which has expressed concern.

A recent opinion poll of 1,200 Filipinos showed they had far greater trust in the United States than they did in China, which Duterte has been praising and courting strongly.

Duterte invited his countrymen to protest if they disagreed with him.

"If you think America will be good for you, if you want to be a (U.S.) territory ... if it is to your personal interest, go ahead and join the demonstration," he said.

"And maybe you can convince me to leave the presidency. But at least I leave without being treated like a pig by the Americans."




Thursday, November 3, 2016

What the Filipino and Senator De Lima Didn't Know About American Made Guns?

The post below shows that not all the guns used by Americans where made in U.S.A., and only proved that there are many manufacturers of guns in the world with low prices but still have the quality and power.

(This post consist of 2 page articles)

I have written and copied this post from around the internet (a trusted website - you can see the source after the post) because I want to show to my fellow Filipinos including madame De Lima (who really fears or concerned about the US government cancellation of selling assault riffles to PNP - Read here) that Philippine government can buy guns that is also used by Americans.

The post below shows and proved that from 1987 until 1994, some 42 percent of all rifles imported into the United States had come from China. Read it below.


In May 2000, Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Pete Stark, and Carolyn McCarthy wrote a letter to their House counterparts urging them to deny China a far-reaching and highly-coveted trade status called Permanent Normal Trade Relations. In their warning, the three Democrats didn’t mention the potentially damaging economic or political ramifications of such a relationship with China or even invoke the country’s infamous human-rights record. Instead, they focused on one specific issue: semi-automatic weapons.


From 1987 until 1994, some 42 percent of all rifles imported into the United States had come from China. The representatives noted that an embargo had been imposed in 1994 because, in just a few years, China “had exported almost one million Chinese rifles to the United States—more than made by all U.S. manufacturers combined in 1992.” Conferring this new trade designation, they argued, would effectively unravel the embargo and allow assault rifles like the SKS semi-automatic to become cheaply available again. “What made them attractive was their power and inexpensive price, only $55.95,” they wrote of the SKS, noting its popularity among neo-Nazis, gangs, and white supremacists. The letter concluded, “Don't give China the power to decide gun policy in the United States.” The bill was signed into law that October.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

"This is just the start of what we will be reaping from the US" - De Lima

The US State Department’s reported decision to stop the sale of assault rifles to the Philippine National Police (PNP) was a consequence of the Duterte administration’s “incomprehensible and ridiculous policy shift," Senator Leila De Lima said on Tuesday.

De Lima, a staunch critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, criticized the government’s shift in foreign policy, saying the Philippines’ “independent positioning” was “hollow and all bluster.”

“We cannot go on telling the US to leave us alone just because we don’t want it prying into our human rights records and EJKs (extrajudicial killings). Sooner or later, something has to give,” De Lima said.


“This is just the start of what we will be reaping from the US as result of the isolationist whirlwind this administration has sown and continue to sow out of an incomprehensible and ridiculous policy shift to anti-Americanism and pro-totalitarian Chinese hegemony in Asia,” she added.



De Lima said the Philippines’ independent foreign policy would lead to isolation and hostility not only to the US but also its allies in the region like Japan, Australia, and South Korea.

Also Read: Australia Giving Duterte Administration $90-M Aid in Mindanao

“The question is, how does this deliberate strategy to isolate us from our friends fit a comprehensive foreign policy shift that would somehow benefit us as a nation?” De Lima said.

Duterte has repeatedly said that the Philippines, during his administration, would pursue an independent foreign policy.

Senator Panfilo Lacson, for his part, said the Philippines did not stand to lose anything if the US would stop the rifle sale.

“There are tens of other countries that manufacture better and probably cheaper assault rifles than the US,” Lacson said.

De Lima also said the move of the State Department “should have been expected” because of the rise in number of EJKs amid the administration’s war on drugs.

“The Duterte administration saw this coming and of course was most probably indifferent to its consequences as its social media support groups and fake news sites will now drum this up as an opportunity to be independent of the US, and its support weapons supplies and technology,” De Lima said.

A Reuters report said the planned sale of some 26,000 assault rifles was halted following opposition from Senator Ben Cardin over concerns about human rights violations in the Philippines. —NB, GMA News



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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Malaysian Prime Minister Next To President Duterte In Ties Up With China?

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak visits China, barely a week of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s week-long visit to China will start October 31. Will it mark a turning point for Malaysian foreign policy, similar to the one recently made by President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte?

US policy in the South China Sea received a powerful blow during Duterte’s momentous visit to Beijing, when he officially announced his country’s “separation” from the US and “realignment” in China’s “ideological flow.”

Source : https://sputniknews.com/asia/201610311046902170-malaysia-china-prime-minister-visit/

Najib Razak’s visit to China is expected to cement defense deals, as well as in economics.

The text of a speech to be delivered by Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein was posted on Facebook last week saying his government would will sign a contract to purchase naval patrol vessels from China during the trip. The post was later removed.




Over the first three months of this year, Chinese investment in manufacturing in Malaysia reached 1.5 billion ringgit (HK$2.7 billion), making it the largest foreign investor in the sector.

Chinese firms have also secured major deals in Malaysia, including a US$7.3 billion port deal in the city of Malacca. China is widely expected to sign a contract to build Singapore to Malaysia high-speed rail line.

Ties between the United States and Malaysia have been strained since the US Department of Justice launched lawsuits linked to money laundering investigations into Najib’s pet project, 1MDB. Further deals and investment with China could put a further strain on ties with Washington.

Source : http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2041619/five-things-watch-out-during-malaysian-prime-minister

This visible ASEAN pivot to the BRICS is sending shockwaves to the Khazarians in the US and UK, who are trying their best to force these ASEAN leaders to follow on their self-serving diktats.

This visible ASEAN pivot to the BRICS Alliance is sending shockwaves to the Khazarians in the US and UK. The CIA is in fact activating its asset, ex-president Fidel V. Ramos, to force Duterte to sign the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change,

Read Also : Ramos Quit As Duterte's Special Envoy To China

Duterte’s rebuff of climate treaty akin to ‘shooting himself in the mouth’ – FVR

In his own bluntly-worded manner, former President Fidel V. Ramos said that President Rodrigo Duterte was “full of S….T” if he thought his diatribes against the Philippines’ allies and the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change Agreement was his God-given destiny, given that his rejection of the climate agreement was akin to him and the entire country “shooting [themselves] in the mouth”.

… Ramos argued further that failure to ratify the Paris Agreement would limit the Philippines’ participation in the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) in Marrakesh to mere observers, and we would thus be unable to advance the interests of the country.

Ratification, however, will “enable us to secure more investments towards our climate goals and gain access to the financial, technological, and capacity-building support to be provided to parties of the Agreement.”

Ramos concluded by calling on the president to approve the Paris Agreement “forthwith”, and “certify it for Senate ratification to promote our country’s interests and fight for climate justice.”

Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/586976/scitech/science/duterte-s-rebuff-of-climate-treaty-akin-to-shooting-himself-in-the-mouth-fvr

This is just one of a series of stupid, unwarranted interference on the policies of the incumbent Duterte government, which border on utter hypocrisy considering Ramos’ failed “trickle down” economics, and massive privatization of critical government utilities, all of which did not uplift the life of the majority in the Philippines.

Leftist groups have also criticized Ramos for his economic reforms such as privatization, deregulation and trade liberalization, claiming that the economic growth posted during his presidency was “artificial.” They blamed him for the slowdown of the Philippine economy during the 1997 East Asian financial crisis. The sale of 40% of Petron to Aramco is specifically criticized for resulting in the loss of the government’s effective leverage on domestic oil prices.

… In 1998, the Union for Socialist Ideas and Action told a left-wing Australian organization that Ramos hesitantly admitted that contrary to his government’s earlier claim, the economic fundamentals of the country may actually be unsound. His admission came following the discovery of a secret memorandum issued by the National Economic Development Authority director-general urging the president to tell the Filipinos the truth about the state of the economy and that they ought to prepare for worse. According to former University of the Philippines president Francisco Nemenzo, Ramos “has done nothing to reverse or slow down the implementation” of the harmful IMF-imposed structural reforms.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Ramos

While Malaysia’s Mahathir was very vocal against Soros’ currency attack on the ASEAN economy, Fidel Ramos was so silent about the whole sordid affair in 1997.

Ramos’ series of unsolicited advice started just after Duterte announced his “separation from United States” and for joining China in its “ideological flow.”

Let it be remembered that Ramos was given a consultancy position at the Carlyle Group when his 6-year term as president ended in 1998. This consultancy position and that of this presidency served as a lifelong reward for his cooperation in the toppling of the late president Ferdinand E. Marcos.

“Despite earnest grassroots nationalist opposition over the past several decades, the Philippines remains a neo-colony of the United States, economically and military bound to Washington, and hopelessly addicted to foreign capital.

The US has a huge economic stake in the Philippines, which is central as a military and intelligence base, as well as a source of energy, raw materials, land, and cheap labor. It was no surprise that securing the Philippines was the focus of the first US post-Afghanistan intervention in the so-called “war on terrorism.”

In his book Endless Enemies, the late Jonathan Kwitny described the Philippines as “the Zaire of Asia,” and “the one Asian country where we (the United States) have engaged in covert political activity, and sometimes fighting, and where things have gone pretty much our way. Every anti-guerrilla campaign has been victorious, and every election, real or rigged, has produced the winner the US government desired.”

… Former President Fidel V. Ramos is Arroyo’s “special envoy for international opportunities.” Despite his denials about the importance of his role, Ramos functions essentially as the country’s co-president.

He is also a direct agent of the Bush oligarchy.

Ramos is a senior advisor of the Carlyle Group and the head of Carlyle’s Asian advisory board. Its directors include former US president George Herbert Walker Bush, former US secretary of state James Baker, current US secretary of state Colin Powell, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt, former UK Prime Minister John Major, and former South Korean Prime Minister Park Tae-Joon.

Carlyle’s client list has included the likes of the bin Laden family and George Soros (a major player involved in the so-called Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s). Saudi prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has been one of Carlyle’s major investors. Its chairman is former Reagan administration defense secretary Frank Carlucci. Carlyle has major stakes in Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and China, which was recently admitted into the World Trade Organization.”

Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI208A.html

Ramos also spearheaded the 2nd Yellow Revolution to topple the more popular President Joseph E. Estrada in 2001. He is expected to lead again the toppling of the incumbent president Rodrigo Duterte, not only for the latter’s pivot to BRICS, but to preserve the Abu Sayyaf terror network which is now suffering heavy casualties amidst heightened military operations in Sulu and Basilan.

Why CIA Created the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines

Source : https://geopolitics.co/2016/10/29/why-cia-created-the-abu-sayyaf-in-the-philippines/

Stratfor revealed that the US Armed Forces built a military base on the southern Philippine island of Basilan. Road-building projects, passed on as “civic action,” started the process of reestablishing a U.S. military base as part of America’s power projection and “forward basing” in Southeast Asia, the Texas-based think tank said.

Said base is where CIA operatives are sending their instructions and intel regarding the specific movements of AFP soldiers against their terrorist assets, i.e. Abu Sayyaf militants, on the ground. This explains why the Abu Sayyaf terrorists have always defeated the AFP cauldrons set up prior to Duterte’s presidency.

BRICS + ASEAN vs. Khazarian Mafia

There is now a strong possibility that Russia, like China, will not sit idly by on this golden opportunity to establish stronger economic and military alliances with the ASEAN now that the leaders of these countries have expressed, in concrete terms, their willingness to sever ties with the Nazionist Khazarian criminal syndicate holding up in the US and EU corporate governments.

Proof of the Philippine-Malaysia coordination on the ASEAN efforts to pivot to the BRICS Alliance is the recent courtesy call of the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Speaker of the Lower House of the Parliament of Malaysia, to President Duterte, a day prior to Malaysian Prime Minister’s visit to China.



Courtesy Call Of the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister




After the US presidential elections, the ASEAN region is where the next battle for geopolitical supremacy between BRICS virtual leader, Vladimir Putin, and Rothschild henchman, George Soros, will be waged next.

In order to deal with Soros, Malaysian officials need to give Vladimir Putin a call.
In order to deal with Soros, Malaysian officials need to give Vladimir Putin a call.

George Soros wants to create color revolution in Southeast Asia

by Jonas E. Alexis

George Soros has again shown that Jim W. Dean was right all along. Soros, Dean says, “refuses to die and join his victims.” Soros, Dean moves on to declare, has been involved in the “the age-old pump-and-dump stock manipulation scam” for quite a while.

As we have argued elsewhere, Soros was involved in destroying the Russian economy in the 1990s. But he has created other covert activities as well. He was behind the Black Lives Matter movement. He wants to flood Europe with so-called refugees from virtually all over the Middle East while remaining silent about US officials supporting terrorist organs in Syria. In short, Soros still wants to move and shake the world.



Soros has recently turned his attention to Southeast Asia. He wants to taste economic blood in that region. He has been in that part of the world before. And government officials know him pretty well.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia declared back in 1997 that for people like Soros, “wealth must come from impoverishing others, from taking what others have in order to enrich themselves. Their weapon is their wealth against the poverty of others.”[1] The New York Times reported then:

“Mr. Mahathir specifically blamed Mr. Soros for orchestrating Malaysia’s economic crisis—he told the assembled bankers and economists that Mr. Soros’s ilk had to be stopped.”

Mahathir said: “I am saying that currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped. It should be made illegal. We don’t need currency trading.”

Mahathir was trying to articulate that rapacious usury is antithetical to the moral order and is therefore to be avoided. He has witnessed what usury, through “crony capitalism,” has done and how it precipitated the economic crisis in much of Asia, most specifically in South Korea and the Philippines. The same “currency” has brought down economic progress in places like Thailand and Indonesia, where was a drastic decline in income. One scholar noted:

“The enormity of the shock is captured by the fact that in the worst-affected countries real GDP growth has turned abruptly from over 7 per cent per annum to negative. In Thailand growth fell from 6 per cent in 1996 to almost zero in 1997, with all the decline concentrated in the second half of that year, and has fallen by at least a further 5 per cent in 1998. In Indonesia the corresponding swing is from 8 per cent growth up to the third quarter of 1997 to an absolute decline of 15 per cent in 1998…

“These huge aggregate income shifts were the result of a financial crisis reflected in precipitous currency devaluations and falls in equity prices. Currencies depreciated by up to 80 per cent in the worst case (the Indonesian rupiah) while equity and other asset prices fell by 50 per cent or more in the worst-affected countries.



“The key factor behind this currency and stock market collapse was a massive reversal of foreign capital flows. It has been estimated that for Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines net private inflows dropped from US$ 93 billion to 12 billion – a swing of 11 per cent of GDP between the end of 1996 and the end of 1997.”

Many countries in Asia were basically following capitalism by that time, and it was no accident that they had a huge debacle by 1997.[5] Mahathir, in that sense, was trying provide a response to that debacle. Soros didn’t like what Mahathir said because Soros is a capitalist and wanted to rip people in Southeast Asia off their labor. He fired back at Mahathir by saying:

“Dr. Mahathir’s suggestion yesterday to ban currency trading is so inappropriate that it does not deserve serious consideration. Interfering with the convertibility of capital at a moment like this is a recipe for disaster. Dr. Mahathir is a menace to his own country.”

Mahathir seemed to have learned his lesson. By 2003, he created a storm of controversy by saying that “The Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.”

Some have said that Mahathir was promoting violence against Jews, but that itself is false. If a person says that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, it does not necessitate the illogical idea that every single Japanese person is responsible for Pearl Harbor at all. Mahathir was making a general claim, and many Jews, including Henry Makow, agreed with him. Elias Davidsson of Jerusalem concurred as well. He said:

“As a Jew myself (but opposed to Zionism) I need no encouragement from Malaysain PM Mahathir Mohammed to observe what should be obvious to the blatant eye: Namely that Jews effectively rule US foreign policy and thus determine to a great extent the conductof most countries…

“So it is with the proposition that Jews control the world. Surely the do not control every single action; surely it does not mean that every Jew participates in the ‘control.’ But for all practical purposes the proposition holds.

“Mahathir has neither asked to discriminate against Jews, let along to kill Jews. It is shameful to equate him to the Hitlerites.”

Mahathir added elsewhere that “a U.S. dominated IMF was ‘trying to change the Asian system.” Obviously that “U.S. dominated IMF” was in concert with capitalism, which has been refined in the twenty-first century by people like Milton Friedman.

But Mahathir probably wouldn’t expect Soros to come back to Southeast Asia for round two. It has been reported that Soros is looking for a “color revolution” through his Open Society Foundation in Malaysia because he seems to think that there is a lack of “constitutional democracy.” Like Rodrigo Duterte, Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak has recently been trying to build an alliance with China:

“Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak heads to China next week to build closer ties and seek investment, which may further dent US aims in Southeast Asia after a push by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines to bolster China ties.”

Obviously this is not good news for New World Order agents at all. It gets worse: “Both Malaysia and the Philippines have long been in dispute with China over the South China Sea. However, Kuala Lumpur may follow in the footsteps of Manila, seeking to ease tensions with Beijing in exchange for economic benefits.”



Soros again does not like that, and this might be one reason why he declared that “There is no Business like the Revolutions Business.’” Mathew Maavak of Risk Foresight at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) comments:

“NGOs and the West-friendly media constitute a major subsidiary of the global social revolutions enterprise. Together, they seek out, identify and amplify public discontent in nations not aligned to the United States.

“Such US-engineered activisms have never led to more equitable societies; rather they have engendered endless bloodshed and global terrorism. To the agitprop entrepreneur, the returns on revolutionary investments are immense.

“A wealthy hedge fund manager can short a targeted market before executing a pre-planned ‘revolution.’ The resultant stock market and currency meltdown would provide self-evidentiary ‘proof’ to an anxious public, exerting more pressure on the government of the day to either capitulate or concede to ‘popular demands’ that are actually drafted abroad, likely by the IMF!”

Maavak, like other experts in Asia, are well aware that Soros was behind the economic crisis in 1997. He writes,

“The entire region was in turmoil, and the name of George Soros featured prominently in this sordid saga. The ‘Reformasi’ [protest] movement led by sacked [Malaysian] Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim — who had close to ties to Washington hawks — failed to topple the government of the day.”

Perhaps Malaysia needs to do what China and Russia did: they need to kick Soros out of for good. Or perhaps they need to give Vladimir Putin a call and ask him how he did it. But what if China, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Russia end up forging an alliance, since they all realize that they have a common enemy? Would that be good news for the New World Order?

I guess US Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work has good reason to say: ““Our adversaries [Russia], quite frankly, are pursuing enhanced human operations and it scares the crap out of us.”[16]

Source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/10/30/george-soros-wants-to-create-color-revolution-in-southeast-asia/

Aside from the fiat monetary scam and bloodsoaked petrodollar, another significant source of funds for the Nazionist Khazarian Mafia is the “healthcare” industry which registered a whopping $3.09 trillion in 2014, and is projected to soar to $3.57 trillion in 2017, in the US alone. We believe that this is just a conservative figure.

We can all help the revolution by avoiding all Khazarian pharmaceutical drugs, defeat any viral attack and scaremongering, like the Zika virus, easily by knowing how to build our own comprehensive antiviral system. Find more about how we can kill three birds with one stone, right here.

Source : https://geopolitics.co/2016/10/31/malaysia-pivots-to-brics-soros-plans-color-revolutions-in-southeast-asia/

Monday, October 31, 2016

FVR Quits as Duterte’s Special Envoy to China


Former President Fidel V. Ramos has resigned as the Philippines' special envoy to China.

President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Ramos as special envoy in July to thaw Philippines-China relations after years of tension over claims in the South China Sea.

"The moment the President came back from China from a successful state visit I resigned as special envoy to China because the officials have taken over," Ramos told GMA News.

"I've done my job to... break the ice and to help restore the ties of goodwill and friendship," he added in an interview after paying tribute to the departed Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the Thai Embassy in Makati City.


Ramos made the disclosure after writing several opinion columns criticizing Duterte.

In a column published by Manila Bullentin early this month, Ramos on occasion of Duterte's 100th day in office said the President did not hit the ground running during the first months of his administration.

He said the government was "stuck in unending controversies about extra-judicial killings of drug suspects and in his ability at using cuss-words and insults instead of civilized language."

Ramos, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, also chided Duterte for declaring a foreign policy independent from the US.

Ramos said countries have become interconnected and that Duterte's "independent foreign policy" may not be the way to go.

Duterte, shortly after his electoral victory, credited Ramos for convincing him to run for President.

"I still consider myself a part of the Duterte team whether they like it or not. But I am free to give friendly advice and that is part of our democratic culture," Ramos said.

The former President said his newspaper commentaries were meant to help solve the country's problems.

"You must consider me an older brother of the big, big, big Filipino family because of my long service in government," Ramos said.


"I must be considered by everybody, including the present President as an older brother of the family," he added.

"Those who wish the big Filipino family peace, sustainable development, progress and a place of respect and even admiration in the family of nations, must get together and look for the best solutions to the problems," Ramos said.

"That is my attitude," he added.

Panatag Shoal, fishing rights

Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping in October had bilateral talks and reportedly discussed the overlapping claims in the South China Sea, particularly in the Scarborough Shoal.

National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon said Duterte raised the issue of the Filipino's traditional fishing rights at the Panatag Shoal with Xi.

“There was no expressed agreement but it seems like the traditional rights of our fishermen are being respected,” Esperon said in a phone interview with reporters.

Filipino fishermen were already able to sail and fish at the Panatag Shoal days after Duterte returned from his trip to China.

Esperon said no agreement was reached during the bilateral talks when Duterte raised the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration upholding the country's exclusive economic zone and the Filipinos' traditional fishing rights.

Xi, in turn, reportedly raised China's historical claims.

“Basta nag-usap ang dalawang presidente at hindi natapos yun dahil ang position ng China is may historical rights sila dun, tayo may historical rights tayo at saka nanalo tayo sa Arbitral Tribunal, yun ang position ni Digong (Duterte’s nickname)," Esperon said.

"Hindi sila nagtagal doon (sa issue) dahil marami silang ibang pag-uusapan so walang agreement,” he added. —NB, GMA News

Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/587058/news/nation/fvr-quits-as-duterte-s-special-envoy-to-china



Watch President Duterte - Launching of the Comprehensive Reform and Development Agenda (CRDA) for ARMM (Speech) 10/29/2016


Saturday, October 29, 2016

Filipino Fishermen Can Now Fish At Scarborough Shoal Without Chinese Vessel Interfere

Some Filipino fishermen from Subic, Zambales are now able to fish at Scarborough Shoal (Panatag Shoal), a report said on Friday.

A "News To Go" report quoted a fisherman as saying that his comrades who ventured off waters have reported via radio that Chinese vessels no longer sent them away.

Fishermen there consider this good news, after more than four years of being unable to enter the territory due to the presence of the Chinese Coast Guard, the report said.

The fishermen are also hoping to continue being free to catch fish in the area.

While Malacañang maintained that the territorial dispute between the Philippines and China will not be discussed in depth, President Rodrigo Duterte said he spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Panatag Shoal issues in a closed-door meeting during his state visit in China.


Duterte refused to give details on the conversation but hinted that something may happen after it.

The two countries released a joint statement last Friday, saying they agreed not to use force in settling the disputes, and that this should not get in the way of the other aspects of their relations.

In July, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in the Netherlands ruled in favor of the Philippines in a case it filed against China, calling the Panatag Shoal a "common fishing ground."

Source: GMA News - http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/586757/news/nation/chinese-vessels-no-longer-chasing-away-pinoy-fishermen-from-panatag-shoal

Authors View: 

I know (and you know also) madam De Lima wasn't  happy about this news because according to her, President Duterte must enforce the ruling of the International Tribunal and accused the President that he diluted the ruling of the court.

President Duterte doesn't dilute the ruling of tribunals, but he said that there will be a time that and now is not the time. The most important is the result his actions to small fishermen.


Watch Pinoy Fishermen Claim They Can Fish Again At WestPH Freely